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co-author Health Communism @VersoBooks | co-host @DeathPanel_ | disabled/blind/immunocompromised |

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Joined August 2008

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

wow HEALTH COMMUNISM entered its 2nd print run on release day! thank you!! we've been hearing from a lot of folks who are looking for it so here's a thread of bookstores (other than copies left on amazon) that have it! (if you run/know a store I've missed—dm me so I can add it!)

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The rumors are true: Health Communism is already entering a second print run

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

is this a threat?

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4 years

some frames of looney tunes are better than most paintings

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

This shouldn’t need explaining: to say this wave of Covid won’t be bad because the most vulnerable have already been hospitalized or died is eugenic logic. It is saying that the landscape of health is different as a result of a specific portion of the body politic being culled.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

6 months

Friendship isn't hindered by masks; it's strengthened by a mutual commitment to each other's health. Masks challenge the status quo of individualism. Masks are a symbol of shared responsibility, emphasizing collective well-being (something Jeffrey doesn’t want to be reminded of).

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Jeffrey A Tucker

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6 months

Do people know how insulting it is to put on a mask when you come near? It's like saying: I suspect that you are diseased and I don't want your filth near my body. Never mind that it doesn't work. It's ruinous to friendship.

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3 years

found a guy

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2 years

we should be honest, a lot of what anti-mask sentiment is boiling down to is a rejection of social rights for the medically vulnerable—what this means is calls for one way masking are rejections of the right to "social life" for disabled, vulnerable, or immunocompromised people

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

According to preliminary CDC data, in 2021, COVID was the 4th leading cause of death for people ages 15-24. It was the 2nd leading cause of death for people aged 25-44, and the No. 1 cause of death for ages 45-54.

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1 year

covid is class war

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The world's elite at the Davos forum are enjoying every possible protection from Covid, including PCR testing, air filtration, UVGI light. Why isn't this being offered to everyone else? Every school, every workplace should have the same protections as the rich and powerful.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

9 months

Walgreens told me my prescription refill was denied by insurance yesterday, turns out they lied to cover for the fact that the pharmacy staff walked out to protest their labor conditions

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Pharmacy employees at some Walgreens stores, including pharmacists, technicians and support staff, are planning a walkout between October 9-11, an organizer confirmed to CNN.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

When people like Leana Wen go on TV and say ‘yeah sure we can protect the immunocompromised but the cost to society would just be too high’ that is textbook eugenics, the social sphere is framed as fundamentally threatened by the “burden” of the vulnerable.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

On day 17 of covid symptoms with vaccine/booster/Paxlovid & while I’m thankful I’m not doing worse…every day I wake up more furious about the push to make isolation just 5 days to get people back to work faster. Imposing capitalist time on illness is always going to fail & harm.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

24 days

I have been speaking privately with other ADA experts about what fighting mask bans might look like *if* they are implemented & it's scary. So, I wanted to share three quick points that have stood out as helpful to know if you're agitating against existing or new mask bans 🧵

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

3 years

we’re so fucked lol

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

We need clean air, masks, boosters, testing, quarantine & sick pay—not more neglect & state abandonment. This is a public health crisis that is being privatized right in front of us. It’s not too late to change COVID strategies to protect people from sickness & economic hardship.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

ok now do mask mandates (transportation, schools, public spaces) and mail a month's worth of free N95s (not per household, per person)

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President Biden

2 years

COVID cases are rising across America as folks gather for the holidays. That's why, starting today, every household can order 4 free COVID tests to be shipped straight to your door. Head to to get yours.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

Ok but vulnerable people aren’t just in hospitals: We are around you at work, at school, at the grocery store, in the park—we don’t live on little islands, or exclusively exist in hospitals, nursing homes and long term care.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

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2 years

But just because masking has a downside doesn’t mean it’s NEVER a good idea. We need to weigh the trade-offs. Masking (perhaps for most but not all adults and older teens) is worthwhile *when covid rates are high* and when *vulnerable people* are around (e.g. in hospitals). 8/

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

oh boy 🥴

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

this is essentially the thesis of Emily Oster’s book “Cribsheet” which is that privileged white people with good access to healthcare and stable safe housing should be able to do whatever they want to because the CDC recommendations aren’t really made “for them”

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David Leonhardt

2 years

* Don't eat cookie dough. * Medium-rare burgers are dangerous. * Women of childbearing age shouldn't drink unless they're on birth control. These are all CDC messages. The agency does many things extremely well. But thinking about risk holistically often is not one of them.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

3 years

the best protection against omicron is to abandon the individuated personal responsibility for health that’s failed us all along—we need policies, masks, to pay people to stay home, HVAC upgrades, workplace regs. the best way to (continue to) fail is to pursue a vax only strategy

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President Biden

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The best protection against Omicron is simple: Get fully vaccinated. Get a booster shot.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

Leana Wen's rhetorical style is the perfect blend of what Wolf Wolfensberger called 'universal forms of deathmaking detoxification' which has four modes—deathmaking as: life-enhancing, the divine will, hidden or obscured, and nullified commons. This is how you hide slow death.

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Leana Wen, M.D.

2 years

At least 53 people have tested positive after Gridiron dinner. Events like this are taking place throughout the US everyday. We can’t tell people not to gather. Requiring attendees to be vaccinated reduces risk, as does same-day testing. People who want more protection can mask.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

1 year

I’ve said this throughout the pandemic, but this is the most extreme proposed retrenchment of social rights for high risk ppl yet. Social rights are access to public space, economic participation & social life—this also puts more virus in air & feeds faux crime panic narrative

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Bloomberg

1 year

“We are putting out a clear call to all of our shops: Do not allow people to enter the store without taking off their face mask," NYC Mayor Eric Adams said

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

3 years

we’re so fucked lol

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Artie Vierkant

3 years

pure death cult shit

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

1 year

It's once again time to call bullshit on the fallacy of personal risk assessment for COVID. It's nothing more than a deceptive notion that tricks us into thinking we can navigate the pandemic individually, while naturalizing the sociological production of the end crisis.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

3 years

eugenics is the love language of capitalism

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Steve Walden♿

3 years

Dr Rochelle Walensky @CDCDirector said on @GMA "the overwhelming number of death [sic] over 75% occurred in people who had at least 4 comorbidities, so really these are people who were unwell to begin with, and yes really encouraging news..."

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

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Eugenics is often collapsed into an ahistorical frame when people say its just about attenuating reproduction/forced sterilization. No, eugenics is the belief that science must intervene at a pop level lest the vulnerable overwhelm the strong leading to the destruction of society

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

3 years

all children under 5 are unvaccinated

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3 years

I hate it here

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

1 year

Some of us talk about Covid as class war. The pandemic as about labor discipline, workplace safety & political will. Organizing potential for the left is huge—those on the mainstream left dragging their feet on Covid are missing out—wasting chances for solidarity & building power

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1 year

@lauralew105 @mindyisser I think this is the issue: the only people left talking a lot about covid are people who are traumatised and scared, so you’re kind of wading through other peoples value-based risk assessments rather evidence-based risk assessments.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

“Barely a month after declaring the “all clear” and lifting indoor mask requirements, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health is once again issuing a warning…Over the past ten days, cases in Philadelphia have increased more than 50%”

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

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have been reticent to speak about this out of respect for people’s privacy but have lost 3 guests in 2 weeks. so deeply furious & sad down to my very core—filled w inertia, rage, loss & shame as I sit here safe in the imperial core &US helps usher Gaza off the face of the earth

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

1 year

My latest! For @DisVisibility I wrote about Eric Adams’ recent call to shops to enforce “mask off at the door” policies—Adams’ suggestion would deny high risk people access to public space while fueling chains of transmission in the ongoing Covid pandemic

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19 days

“We have barreled so far forward into pandemic denial that the Democratic Party has gone from being the party of mask mandates to the party of mask bans in just over four years.”

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19 days

Let’s get the obvious part out of the way: Mask bans endanger us all. But masks are about much more than public health, write @realLandsEnd and @avierkant of @DeathPanel_ .

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

I’m sorry but do leftists who are being shitty about masking remember that they don’t just protect you from COVID but they also hide your face from surveillance? Why the fuck do you think the state was so anti-mask after the 2020 uprising, why are you carrying water for them? Lol

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

this reminds me of the eugenics movement’s quest to cure cancer by breeding humans w/out a family history, our approach to illness and disease will always be limited if we ignore the social, political & environmental determinants of health in favor of a myth of biological destiny

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WIRED

2 years

We all know a “Covid virgin,” or “Novid,” someone who has defied all logic in dodging the coronavirus. Scientists think they might hold the key to helping protect us all. Via @WIREDUK

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

the social security administration sent me 6 pieces of paperwork, with 72 short questions (none of it in large print like my accommodations stipulate) and gave me 5 days to get it back to them. its due on a sunday, this is what a continuing disability review is like

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

A point I have not heard a lot of people mention that really worries me about these new Covid guidelines is if your area is at the "medium"/"high" risk level and you live with a vulnerable person the CDC says you should mask in your own home to protect them—this is really bad

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

Eugenics lives in the institutions and systems we use to compare populations, to statistically value life, to regulate labor. It lives in policy abandonment, in environmental policy (esp, the lack thereof), in all the interstices of capitalism where the worth of life is measured.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

I have been very busy today so did not see this blow up, but it’s important to note Oster isn’t saying she deserves forgiveness. She’s saying she was right all along and she wants to give people grace who she thinks have been proven wrong on the point of keeping schools closed 🥴

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

oh boy 🥴

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

24 days

First, the big worry is that mask bans using the ADA would require fighting it on a singular case by case basis (burden is on disabled people never the business) and as we talk about all the time on Death Panel this is one of the biggest limitations of the ADA legal framework.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

1 year

A recent CDC data brief showing that 9 million Americans are not taking medications as prescribed due to cost highlights how the refusal to pass Medicare for All is social murder. Social murder refers to the unnatural death resulting from social, political, or economic oppression

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

I would love to give a talk sometime on the differences between organized abandonment, social murder, structural violence and slow death. Terms which are often used interchangeably, but—while related—mean/refer to different things. The nuance here is actually very interesting. 1/

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

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"Masks did not become a symbol of solidarity overnight...There is still much work to be done. But if you ever stopped masking, there has rarely been a better time to start again. Mask up and show your solidarity. Eric Adams will hate it."

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Artie Vierkant

19 days

This morning @realLandsEnd and I are in The Nation arguing against mask bans: Masks Are a Symbol of Solidarity. Don’t Let Democrats Take Them Away.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

3 years

What people don’t realize is that this is and has been common practice in long term care, nursing homes, home care settings, and asylums since the Thorazine Task Force in 1952. It may be exacerbated by the pandemic, but chemical incarceration of elders and mad people is rampant.

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The New York Times

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Nursing homes give antipsychotic drugs to at least 1 in 5 residents, a rate higher than publicly reported and hidden by false diagnoses, a New York Times analysis found.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

Funny to see no mention of how inaccessible online patient portals are to screenreader users. Not only that, in-office accessibility: usually abysmal—many support staff are outright hostile to me when I ask for navigation assistance btwn waiting room & exam room even with my 🦯

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The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

2 years

Blindness and vision loss are among the top 10 disabilities among adults in the United States. But a new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests people with impaired vision aren’t getting the health care they need.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

The attenuation of reproduction is just one strategy of eugenics, others include targeted extermination and incarceration but also data collection, surveillance, observation, and the retraction of social/economic/political rights via administrative law & judicial interpretation.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

1 month

Good time to revisit this piece I wrote last year for @SFdirewolf ’s @DisVisibility Blog about Eric Adam’s push for “mask off at the door” policies in NYC

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@Gothamist

Gothamist

1 month

Gov. Hochul considering banning people from wearing masks on NYC subways

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

24 days

Second, there seems to be an opportunity to fight mask bans that target public transportation at scale due to the ADA’s requirements for public transit busses. Both ADA & Section 504 offer leverage re: public transportation accessibility. This one seems worth digging into futher

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

I was interviewed but ultimately not quoted for that big David Leonhardt profile in New York Magazine. Here are some of the points I wanted to get across

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

When I lost my vision in ‘17 I lost my hobbies that required hand-eye coordination. It’s been years, still can’t see—so I started to teach myself how to darn socks by feel—even if I my vision never comes back I deserve to have things back that I enjoy even if I do them poorly lol

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

Emily Oster never misses an opportunity to be petty and whine about the criticism she feels she’s unfairly received

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

tell me more about these “back-channel discussions and political focus groups” that have been “loosely coordinated” since weeks after the November election

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

1 year

This year covid will be pushed to the private market, yet 10k people died last month. Tell the Biden Administration: If they want to keep fueling a forever covid crisis, the federal government must pay for it in perpetuity. @avierkant & I for @TeenVogue

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Why The White House Shouldn't Privatize COVID Vaccines

"It is hard to overstate just how much of a disaster this would be."

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

so which is it then? the CDC is eliminating COVID protections because the science changed? or because of public sentiment and the latest euphemism for “herd immunity”?

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@CNN

CNN

2 years

The CDC is expected to update its guidance in the coming days for Covid-19 community control, including in schools, sources say

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

5 months

We have an important Covid episode for you—CDC is planning to end 5-day Covid isolation guidance. In today’s episode we discuss why isolation guidance is a labor issue & is not responding not to any new scientific data or analysis but to capitalism & preserving economic activity.

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Death Panel

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In our latest, we discuss the CDC’s plan to drop its covid isolation guidance, a move that has nothing to do with the state of the pandemic and everything to do with keeping people at work

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

3 years

from “The Sexual System and it’s Derangements” (1875) by Emery C. Abby

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

1 year

A recent analysis published in JAMA found that between August 2021- July 2022 COVID was leading infectious/respiratory cause of death in children, 5th in disease-related causes of deaths & 8th leading cause of death in children overall, making up 2% of all deaths between age 0-19

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mindy🌷

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yesterday we had our 4 month checkup for him and contrary to the weird beliefs on here, i’m actually still fairly anxious about covid! so i asked how concerned we should be, and the doctor said not very.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

3 years

Can’t wait to use this CDC graphic which will become legendary in disability studies if we survive this plague, as the 1st slide in the next lecture I give on how the US eugenics movement never ended & is just inscribed in the political-economic institutions of health writ large

@CDCgov

CDC

3 years

Hospital stays can be expensive, but COVID-19 vaccines are free. Help protect yourself from being hospitalized with #COVID19 by getting vaccinated. Find your vaccine: .

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4 years

this...along with every other take from a clinician who brags that they can easily chemically and physically restrain their “dangerous patients” when the cops shoot people is also why we need to abolish the entire carceral state

@DrLeanaWen

Leana Wen, M.D.

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If @realDonaldTrump were my patient, in unstable condition + contagious illness, & he suddenly left the hospital to go for a car ride that endangers himself & others: I'd call security to restrain him then perform a psychiatric evaluation to examine his decision-making capacity.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

3 years

How the fuck is “Are you mentally prepared for the consequences of you infect a vulnerable person?” a reasonable part of traveling responsibly?

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The New York Times

3 years

Holiday travel is happening, despite Omicron. If you want to travel responsibly, here are some strategies you can follow.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

I don’t know how many times I have to say the immunocompromised live in society! We need you to mask while cases are high (like now) to keep us safe, now is not the time to ditch masks because “all the people around you are healthy”—also ignores long covid

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Should You Still Wear a Mask?

Experts weigh in on where, and when, you can safely take one off.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

Covid is not just a risk to high risk people, its a risk to everyone, and the only way to keep high risk people safe is to keep everyone safe from infection.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

Here’s the thing tho, Rochelle is both medium & message re: COVID response. There are no such things as political points, no grand cosmic tally of justice you pay into/take from—it’s justified rage—we know most wishing her well won’t extend compassion to vulnerable sick or dying.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

5 months

By further loosening isolation guidelines *again* w/no scientific basis, the CDC perpetuates exploitation of workers & non workers alike—exposing us to financial instability & forced sickness. Covid is class war—exacerbating contradictions of capitalism—deepening the class divide

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

3 years

Listen, I’m not a life coach, a therapist, or a public health expert. I do political-economic analysis, and my perspective is that if you think you have a left political perspective, then now is not the time to disengage on Covid-19.

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"Deaths Pulled From the Future"

A brief argument for still giving a fuck about the pandemic.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

1 year

@TRyanGregory I like how Bob’s current theory of Covid infection is more like a landlord’s approach to interior paint: the answer is always more paint. lead paint? paint over it. cockroach stuck to the wall? more paint should fix! structural issues? more paint. no heat? one more coat of paint.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

not "social life" in terms of being able to go out and hang with your friends, though that is certainly a huge part of it. i mean "social life" in terms of what sociologist John Marshall called "social rights" e.g. economic participation which predicates inclusion

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

Is resistance to masking a novel phenomenon of newly politicized public health? No. Its still an important problem to address. But the issue isn’t getting politics out of science it’s fundamentally reshaping our relations to work & the economy—a new political economy of health

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

feeling so overwhelmed with gratitude, thank you to everyone who has read/is reading/is excited to read Health Communism, it means the world to feel the love, solidarity and enthusiasm that folks have for the book—we're so excited for it to be out in the world!!!!!

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

According to numbers from Our World in Data, right now US COVID deaths account for one in five COVID deaths globally. This is not the time to privatize COVID vaccines and treatments, end the PHE or wind down the federal response.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

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To familiarize yourself w/ ADA's limits & process of accommodation—I'd suggest Death Panel ep "The ADA as Welfare Reform" & Ruth Colker's essay in the LPE Marta Russell symposium "The Reactive Model of Reasonable Accommodation"

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

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oh boy, Emily Oster saying COVID protections are driving the so-called “culture wars” now 🥴

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2 years

During the plague it was common to ascribe the causality of waves of infections to imagination, the more you thought about Black Death the more it came to your community. One of the norms that developed was to prematurely roll back mitigations to drive away thoughts of the plague

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

Since Leana Wen self-identified as a disabled doctor in 2014 because of her cured childhood stutter, her thread here is her describing the development of lateral ableism (when one disabled person is prejudiced or discriminated against other disabled people)

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Leana Wen, M.D.

2 years

Others will view these trade-offs differently. Some will maintain strict precautions to protect a severely immunocompromised household member. Some may decide that kids can resume their pre-pandemic activities, but the family still masks at airports & avoids large events. /14

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

Lauren Berlant is the single largest influence on how I think about resistance to the most basic pandemic mitigations, why the refusal to accommodate immunocompromised folks with broad masking is so firm & why the clear high costs of abandonment are met with systemic incoherence

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

And you can both mask inside, run air purifiers, open the windows, keep the sick person isolated but it is not enough to protect an immunocompromised partner from testing + either. There’s no substitute for universal masking, no better prevention than reducing overall infections

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Artie Vierkant

2 years

Try telling me “one way masking works” one more time I stg

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

It's fascinating to look back at the language used to communicate the importance of mask mandates in fall 2020/winter 2021—the efficacy of mask mandates is framed as unquestionable and the benefits are nearly always framed as not just good for health but especially the economy 🧵

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

nope, when I say “communism” I mean communism

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

Our pandemic response has been categorically obsessed with preempting the end of Covid by play-acting “normal” as if this is some new modern approach afforded to us by advancements in science. In truth—we are repeating ancient ignorance which misunderstands how diseases work 😷

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

10 months

Highly ironic PSA: this is an interview with Naomi Klein, NOT Naomi Wolf. For the people who have gotten big mad thinking we would platform Wolf (we obviously wouldn’t), the book we talk about in this interview is Klein writing about being mistaken for Wolf

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Death Panel

10 months

In our latest, we speak with @NaomiAKlein about left melancholy, coping with and working against years of disastrous pandemic response, and her new book Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

“The D.C. health department has not shared data with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since April 27 on the number of new coronavirus cases in the District or on any deaths from the virus, as cases inch upward again elsewhere in the region.”

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

every time disability enters the discourse commons, people jump at the chance to police the borders of disability for “waste, fraud, and abuse” 🙃

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

3 years

If you see yourself as having left politics then you should be building towards a world where no one is disposable, not wasting your time, energy, and rhetoric on marking people for state and collective abandonment.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

Basically what I’m saying is this argument is not only full of logical fallacies and designed to minimize the harms of Covid through contextual misappropriation, it is also explicitly class coded and treats public health rec’s like they only apply to the “unwashed masses”

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

3 months

conversations with comrades in gaza have recently been all about water—both re: public health and how hot and thirsty they are all the time. a few worked on chronic kidney disease together & worry about the coming months, deeply concerned what prolonged heat / dehydration will do

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

24 days

However, it's not so cut & dry. Both laws are preferential to *very* specific accommodations & it requires making a novel argument about masking as accommodation—which while broadly understood colloquially as true, does not have extensive precedent as access tool to rely on (yet)

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

if you're asking only the vulnerable to bear the literal cost of buying ppe, while alleviating the non-medically vulnerable from the literal cost of buying ppe, and making public life *more* dangerous for the medically vulnerable—that is a rejection of vulnerable social life

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

it's not just that Leonhardt is giving advice on personal risk, it's that in doing do he is enforcing an idea of the pandemic that does not reflect the reality of how this disease spreads—he's encouraging the US to treat a population level problem wrong w personal responsibility

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

24 days

Let me break this one down: DOT regs that interface with the ADA could maybe be pushed to address a situation like a mask ban. The argument could be made that a mask ban is similar to a guide dog/cane ban effectively banning blind people from using the bus, singling them out

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

If I die of Covid forget burial just drop my body on the steps of Matt Yglesias’ DC townhouse

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

1 year

Ah, the tender embrace of capitalism's invisible hand, Blue Cross Idaho denying cancer drugs to babies. Don’t ever forget prior authorization is not about patient safety, health insurance companies use it as a tool to legitimate actions which would otherwise be a moral outrage.

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Wendy Hasson MD

1 year

1/Please share this thread on behalf of my physician colleague, Eunice Stallman, who is facing the nightmare of her 9mo daughter, Zoey, being diagnosed with brain cancer several weeks ago. @BlueCrossIdaho has added to their anguish by obstructing access to vital treatment.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

I explained how David Leonhardt's perspective seems to be ignorant of or ignore the fact that many medically vulnerable people can be all around you at anytime, with NO obligation to disclose their condition, David's push to normal demands that disclosure

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

It also shouldn’t be on us to be constantly disclosing medical vulnerability begging you to mask just for us, what about all the workers who will be pressured out of mask wearing by their bosses who will get sick and possibly have long term symptoms? It’s not just the vulnerable

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

this is a denial of social rights for the immunocompromised, if you're asking only the vulnerable to bear the cost of buying ppe, while alleviating the non-vulnerable from the cost of buying ppe, this makes public life more dangerous/$$ for the vulnerable

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

we should be honest, a lot of what anti-mask sentiment is boiling down to is a rejection of social rights for the medically vulnerable—what this means is calls for one way masking are rejections of the right to "social life" for disabled, vulnerable, or immunocompromised people

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

Please for the love of god can we just drop the bullshit “Community Level” system already? We need to go back to the “Community Transmission Level” system before we have a summer wave bigger than anything we’ve seen before.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

5 months

just avoid immunocompromised people … like as if you can tell by looking at us that we’re immunocompromised? come the fuck on

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

Vaccines are not a silver bullet, it’s time to invest in social-technologies. It is not a plan to tell people to just expect to get sick three or four times a year and abandon the most vulnerable. That’s not a plan that’s social murder.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

I’m so tired of the pointless, endless, limp both-sides framings of COVID mitigation. Its useless moral shadow boxing with anti-mask health capitalist liberals who have convinced themselves they are not harming anyone by resisting NPIs (and will not be convinced by clever nudges)

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

In "The New Genocide" Wolfensberger elaborates on his own take on 'social murder' specifically as it relates to the social murder of disabled people and others labeled as social deviants, calling those responsible for the intellectual labor of justifying it 'death makers'

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

1 month

“One factory making CVS-branded pain and fever medications for children used contaminated water. Another made drugs for kids that were too potent. And a third made nasal sprays for babies on the same machines it used to produce pesticides.”

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

1 year

@kendrafeliciter wait wait wait this is a real headline? 🥴🥴🥴🥴

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

2 years

I just fucking cant with people who post “I’m a realist, masks are over. But…if (when?) cases go up mask up 👉👈🥺” What is that supposed to accomplish? Why capitulate to anti-maskers as preface to ur argument? COVID is ongoing, flu is here: Masking should be mandated right now

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

24 days

Why just the bus? Well, the ADA is not a mandate that all public transportation be made accessible, only some. Section 504 was initially interpreted that way but it was reinterpreted under the Reagan administration to be a mandate that public transit systems make an effort at it

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